Virginia Lomax and John Mosby graves

[L Verge]

Following traditions of that time (and especially in the South), there's a good chance that Singleton was his mother's maiden name??

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(12-02-2015 07:28 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Following traditions of that time (and especially in the South), there's a good chance that Singleton was his mother's maiden name??

John was named for his paternal grandfather - another John Singleton Mosby. From his memoirs, "My grandfather Mosby was also a native of Powhatan. He lived at Gibraltar, but moved to Nelson County, where my father, Alfred D. Mosby, was born. When I was a child my father bought a farm near Charlottesville,"

His memoirs have a picture of him at age 55, which I had never seen before.